Bill Text: CA SB141 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Personal income taxes: exclusion: loan discharge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-07-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 71, Statutes of 2017. [SB141 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB141-Chaptered.html
| Senate Bill No. 141 |
| CHAPTER 71 |
An act to amend Section 17144.7 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation.
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Approved by
Governor
July 17, 2017.
Filed with
Secretary of State
July 17, 2017.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 141, Nguyen.
Personal income taxes: exclusion: loan discharge.
The Personal Income Tax Law provides for various exclusions from gross income, including an exclusion for the amount of student loan indebtedness discharged on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2020, for an eligible individual who is granted a discharge of any student loan pursuant to special provisions of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Borrower’s Rights and Responsibilities Statement because the individual could not complete a program of study due to the school closing or because the individual successfully asserts that the school did something wrong or failed to do something that it should have done.
This bill would replace the reference to those provisions of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Borrower’s Rights and Responsibilities Statement to instead refer to the relevant sections in the Code of
Federal Regulations that govern the above-referenced exclusion for discharged student loans.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 17144.7 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended to read:17144.7.
(a) Section 108(f)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code is modified to additionally provide that in the case of an individual, gross income does not include any amount that, but for this section, would be includable in gross income by reason of the discharge, in whole or in part, of any student loan if the individual is an eligible individual for the taxable year.(b) Section 108(f)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to student loan, is modified to additionally provide that a student loan means a student obligation note or other debt evidencing a loan to any individual for the purpose of attending a for-profit higher education company or for the purpose of consolidating or refinancing a loan used to attend a for-profit higher education company, which is either a
guaranteed student loan, an educational loan, or a loan eligible for consolidation or refinancing under Part B of Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1071 et seq.).
(c) For purposes of this section, an individual is an eligible individual for a taxable year if any of the following apply during the taxable year:
(1) The individual is granted a discharge of any student loan pursuant to the discharge agreement.
(2) (A) The individual is granted a discharge of any student loan pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 685.206 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as it read January 1, 2016, because the individual successfully asserts that the school did something wrong or failed to do something that it should have
done.
(B) The individual is granted a discharge of any student loan pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 685.214 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as it read January 1, 2016, because the individual could not complete a program of study due to the school closing.
(3) The individual attended a Corinthian Colleges, Inc. school on or before May 1, 2015, is granted a discharge of any student loan made in connection with attending that school, and that discharge is not covered by paragraph (1) or (2).
(d) For purposes of this section, “discharge agreement” means the agreement between ECMC Group, Inc., Zenith Education Group, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concerning the purchase of certain assets of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., dated February 2,
2015.
(e) This section shall apply to discharges of indebtedness occurring on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2020.
(f) This section shall remain in effect only until December 1, 2020, and as of that date is repealed.
